Uncle who ‘raped and murdered niece before stuffing body in freezer offered second victim up for rape on chat room’

Mujahid Arshid sent explicit messages in a chat room to an undercover officer offering up his 17-year-old virgin 'girlfriend'

By Amanda Devlin

30th January 2018, 11:54 pm

Updated: 31st January 2018, 8:42 am

A BUILDER accused of raping his niece before stuffing her dead body in a freezer offered an undercover officer the chance to have sex with his second victim, a court has heard.

The Old Bailey was today told Mujahid Arshid, 33, exchanged the explicit messages online four years before he allegedly killed 20-year-old Celine Dookhran and attacked another woman, who cannot be identified.

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Mujahid Arshid is accused of killing his niece and attempting to kill another alleged victim

Prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC read out the web chat with "Andrew", in which Arshid allegedly said he would take photographs if the officer agreed to have sex with his 17-year-old virgin "girlfriend", adding she "deserved it".

The officer said he would "mask up" for the encounter while Arshid allegedly suggested drugging her instead.

The court heard he told the officer: "Wish I could get hold of some chloroform.

But when Arshid was confronted by police in 2014, he blamed one of his labourers for using his computer which he had since sold.

The Crown Prosecution Service said his explanation could not be rebutted and no further action was taken.

In July last year, Arshid allegedly snatched Ms Dookhran and the other woman with the help of another labourer, Vincent Tappu.

He took them to an empty house in Kingston, south-west London, where he raped and slashed them with a knife, jurors have heard.

He stuffed Ms Dookhran's body into a freezer and left with the surviving woman, who was taken to hospital by his brother suffering from cuts to her neck and wrists, the court has heard.

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Mujahid Arshid, right, in the dock of the Old Bailey alongside labourer Vincent Tappu who is accused of helping

Giving evidence, Arshid, who is originally from Blackburn, Lancashire, told jurors he had consensual sex with both women in the house in Kingston-on-Thames before the second woman slit Miss Dookhran's throat in a fit of jealously.

The defendant claims he had consensual sex with both women on the same night.

Explaining that the second woman saw him getting dressed after sex with Celine, Arshid claimed: "She burst into he room and she is going crazy.

"I can't tell you how angry she was.

"She is incredibly possessive and has had heard what was going on.

"She was screaming 'how could you do this?'"

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Police found Arshid with keys to the freezer padlock

Arshid claimed he couldn't handle the two women arguing so went outside to his truck and rang his mother, staying there for about 15 minutes before going back into the house.

He said: "I went up the stairs and there was no noise and I thought this is good, they had calmed down and that's good.

"I walk up and get to the top of the stairs and I look into the bathroom and saw her (the second woman) standing there knife in hand and blood on her hands."

He found Celine in the bath and found no pulse and said: "I never knew so much blood could come out of a person."

He claimed the other woman was just standing there with the knife in her hand.

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